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About The West. (Florence, Lane County, Or.) 1890-1921 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1891)
NEWS IN GENERAL. , WORLD S FAIR NOTES, THE CAPITALIST The agricultural s<x‘iety of France decided to offer a number of premiu London has 6000 telephones. for the best French horses shown at t.l Women drummers increase. fair. Quaritch, the noted London book-de New York has 250,000 Hebrews. er, intends to send to the Exposition f Malay supplies half the world’s tin. autograph letter of Christopher La Grippe is again epidemic in Silecia. bus, for which he paid $5000. Virginia’s building at the Expcd The floods in England are slowly sub will be of the old colonial type, meaiu siding. ing 33x76 feet, two stories high and eu Counterfeit Swedish money is made in rounded by a piaaa 15 feet wide. It ^’lll this country. cost $20,000. Both Spain and France are great suf The Art Palace on the Lake Front ferers by floods. Park, which will be built by the Art I n American-made shotguns are greatly stitute, assisted to the extent of $200,000 by the Exposition Company, will cost in demand abroad. about $700,000. A sheep costs thirty-three cents in San California is the first state to respond Antonia, Texas. to chief Buchanan’s request that each There is an epidemic of forgery and state contribute the trunks of three of coinage in Germany. its most characteristic trees, to be used Australia and Italy have again signed in constructing a rustic coloiiade for the Forestry building. the Triple Alliance with Germany. Florida’s Exposition building will be a 1 , he H onda orange crop is estimated . • Mnrinn , full sized reproduction of . r o r t Marion, a t from three million to tour m illion' which was built 1 .„„tin*» in at c St. Augustine in 1R50 1850, boxes. ami is believed to be the oldest building The United States coast defence ship i in the United States. It is of stone, and. Miantonomali has been put into commis covers a space of about 150 feet square. sion. Mrs. Potter Palmer is to drive the last A new excitement for Oklahoma is nail in the Woman’s building, lh e supplied by the discovery of gold-bearing lady managers of Montana, at the sug gestion of Mrs. J. E. Richards, are hav quartz at Chandler. ing the nail made of gold, silver and For economy’s sake promotions of copper. It will be forwarded to Chicago , state and civil servants in Italy have as soon as completed. been suspended two years. The great imitation coast-line battle The astonishing rainfall of the past ship, which is to constitute ami contain month has produced floods all over Eng the government’s naval exhibit, is in an land unequaled since 1875. advanced state of construction. It will F i . orkxcb is a flourishing, wide-awake town situated about three miles inland Great Britain will need the importa be all inclosed before w inter weather sets tion of twenty million quarters of wheat in, ami all of the interior work will be from the ocean beach and upon the north shore of the Siuslaw Bay. It is the dia mond set amid the ¡»earls oi our beautiful valley. It is t^e only sea-port town of completed by spring. to meet this year’s requirements. mling as Florence does on ground that gently slo|»eij toward the The Carriage Builders’ Natioe .1 hmnmv’d in in on three sides by the somber forests, it forms a panorama < Forest, fires have worked destruction «nuesenbahle harmony. At our feet is the beautiful expanse of water, no.. ' soeiation, nt it* rece.’ * . ession in , .unescribabie haram ir. i / '/ ‘ p arts of Wisconsin, Mici-.gan again aroused from its wonted slumbers by a slight ripple that loses itself with a nati, appointed an influential committee and north-western Minnesota. gentle murmur along the ¡»ebbly shore. H ither and thither flit small hoata and to supervise the collection and picpuia steamers ; at the wharves jutting into the water lie prop» llers which regularly ply A new fibre plant has been found in tion of a creditable exhibit of vehicles, to other towns on the coast. the state of VeraCruz, Mexico, which is and to co-operate with Chief Smith, of It has been but a very short time since Florence ami the wonderful slop har bor at her feet were taken into more consideration than flint of a good location for said to produce a fibre almost identical the Transportation Department. salmon fishing. Since th at time it has made gigantic strides in commercial impor with inanilla hemp. Thomas A. Edison, the famous electric tance, w hile during the year just closed over 1,500 families have settled on the rich The return of live stock on ranges for ian, has applied for 35,000 feet of space, land that surround the town. Wo have a town of over 4M) population and »laily nine districts of the west foots up as fol or about one-seventh of all that the Elec there are added numerous names which help to swell the grand total of our popula tion. Nearly aJl brunches of trade ami business are represented, yet we are hacked lows: Horses, 517,158; mules, 5428; tric building contains. “ I have it from hv a country, ry, the resources oi h ic h w i n s sustain u s t a i n many times twnen the numbe >*» Iter now rep of w which will cattle, 6828,182; sheep, 6,676, 002; swine Mr. Edison himself,” said chief John 1‘. li'm'iavii. utili resented. Fifty dollars is now being expended by the Government in the * iio « thousand ...................... ----- ------------ ---- • • I I . — — - — — ~ — - I - - M M M « « M • • M « , S . V f . . I I * L V Barrett, “ that his display at the fair is improvement of our hurbor, and largcr upprupriations are suro to fotiow. 17,276. The low volcanic island, which rose so to be the greatest achievement of his suddenly out of the sea at Palermo, life.” Three mill's above Florence is situated the beautiful town of Acme. While The nine lady managers resident in Italy, and from which fire was emitted, Potter this town is not so large as Florence it is none the less a promising town and will I* has entirely disappeared, even the wa-1 Chicago, called together by Mrs. a shining light in the Siuslaw valley’s future pr<»s|»erity. It is called “ the Town of Palmer, have decided to establish a mod ter that covers it having ceased to boil. ” ami a more appropriate name could not have been given. Surrounding el sanitary kitchen in the Woman’s Mills Acme is a soilmarveious in its fertility, producing g<»<sl grain, good grasses and ex The validity of the new constitution of building at the Exposition. An effort cellent fruit of all varieties ; soft, pure, cold water m the clear-flowing mountain Kentucky is to be contested on the will be made by a special entertainment streams; excellent Umber, either lor fuel or building purpose«, is abundant in the ground that the constitutional conven or otherwise, to raise the $4000 necessary surrounding country. tion made numerous changes after the for the purpose. instrument was ratified by the people. The number of intending exhibitors who have applied for space at the Expo The climate of this country is a marvel of perfection. To a person who lias ex A timid man, living alone in the out sition reached 1635 on October 24. This perienced the cold, wet, sleety spring, the hot, sun-scorched summer the frozen skirts of the city of Hartford, has hit is a much larger number than the Cen Gizzard blasts of winter in the Middle, Eastern and Northern Middle States, it is upon a novel device for scaring away tennial had at a correspondingly early hardly possible for bin. to realize the change. Hare the average temperature is, burglars. Each night upon retiring he date. The number does not include any for soring, 51 degrees ; for eummer, 65 degrees; lor autumn 51 degrees, and for places a huge pair of boots outside of ev- foreign applications, all of which are winter 3i» degrees. These fuels have yearly lieen r e t r i e d by Hignal borvloe oflid- als to the department at Washington. This low temperature is caused by the Jap . ry bedroom door in the house to convey made to their respective national com- an current which flows from the South Pacific ocean ami modifies the climate of the impression that every chamber is oc ! missions. the Pacific Coast states in the same manner ns the Atlantic gulf stream tempers the climate of Great Britain and Ireland. Thunderstorm s occur but seldom, while cupied by an able-bodied man. A burg One acre of ground within the Horti hail storms, hurricanes, earthquakes, cyclones and other destructive phenonema lar who happened in would think he had cultural building has been reserved for are unknown. It is no uncommon thing to see flowers in bloom in the open air in .-truck a hotel. an orange grove from Florida and the mid winter. __________ From data at band a correspondent of I same amount for a grove from Califor- estimated the vocabulary of a nia. These trees will be brought to Cbi- itizen of the United States with a com cago next year ami planted, so they will T he Hiualaw and Eaatern Railway and N avigation Company bun mon school education and of ordinary bear fruit while the Exposition is open. but recently completed a perm anent line of aurvey between Eugene intelligence and reading at about 10,000 Tiiese two acres constitute two interior m ud Florence, through Acme, ami it will not be many month« before words, ami that of a well read college courts of the building , they will Iwgin grading. The man th at own« property in either H or- ild in g m a te n - en(.J <>r A(,me Ht t|m t tim e wiI, ,M. the cttpitali«t of the Kiunlaw V alley. graduate, ami of those who have pur —Any ami all kinds of huildi sued a university course, at from 20,000 al both rough and dresse< (I, a t David A ^ n o t|,er enterprise of great im portance ¡« th at of the big saw-mill now upwards to perhaps 100,000. One’s vo Son's Glenada saw-mill being erected by K im ball, Steven« & Co. Tbi« mill will have a capaci cabulary is usually nearly complete at —Wihl wood axes and saws, ami a ty of 100,000 feet per day and will employ 160 men. ihirty years of age. If hut two words full line of hardware at lowest prices in For fu rth er particular« relative to the«e to n« addies« are lea'rned each day the vocabulary at lame county at F. L. Chambers, Eugene that age would he only 20,000. Records — Hardware of all kinds at bottoi i show that young children acquire new words more rapidly than that, hence the prices, at F. L. Chambers, opposite lb I ker hotel, Eugene. necessity of early education. Siberia has 868,552 people, to-day and the future is the Man who can see a City before it is built. A City after it is built can be seen by anybody. Ynur Attention is Called tn AND TWO LEADING TOWNS OF T1IE GREAT SIUSLAW VALLEY, F lo r e n c e . iiih u v j ’ . O lim e t t © . ISTo^v E n t e r p r i s e s . W. A. COX, FLORENCE, OREGON.